Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

It was an old myth that struck terror in the hearts of the natives who had lived in the region for generations, keeping them away from the mighty mountains. It was the myth of the Demon daughters of Blood and Death.Some tales had it...

Born in 1737 Rudolf Erich Raspe was German scholar, scientist, and adventurer best remembered as the author of the popular tall tales The Adventures of Baron Munchausen published in 1785. The stories were originally political satire and are now enjoyed for their humor. First...

Follow a seventeen year old mercenary from Germany in this fiction/fantasy novel as he travels to America, fights in the Civil War by spying and blowing up ammunition trains. Then, through his experience with the newly patented dynamite builds railroads across America. Meet the...

Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: "Swann's neo-romantic fantasies of the...

Lowood School is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte that tells the story of a young orphan girl named Jane Eyre. The book begins with Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is mistreated by her aunt and cousins. After a traumatic incident, Jane...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have...

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNERSPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER EDITION "Rich and regal." --The New York Times New introduction by Marjorie Liu (The Tangleroot Palace)New illustrations by Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes) Fifty years ago, the soon-to-be celebrated young author Patricia A. McKillip (the Riddle-Master trilogy) penned the...

When every choice he makes unleashes disaster, can a young man save his sister before he loses everything he loves?Ireland, 520. In a mystical realm where the veil between mortals and the Otherworld is thin, a young hero must navigate a treacherous journey to...

When an apprentice from the Mapmakers' Guild goes missing, Matt and India are employed to find him. Going undercover as a married couple, they discover that not everyone at the guild is what they seem, and the lad's unearthly maps caused jealousy, suspicion and...

When a newspaper report of a medical miracle catches Matt's eye, he and India go in search of Dr. Hale in the hope he is more magical doctor than miracle worker and can lead them to Chronos. But Hale turns out to be an...

Sheltered and lonely, Jon's life changes drastically when a strange ship sails into the harbour of his small port town one day. Trapped between the possessive pirate captain and his murderous first mate, he must learn to adapt or he will lose himself completely....

It's been roughly one year since Chuuya Nakahara joined the Port Mafia, and he's determined to become an executive before fellow mafioso Osamu Dazai. However, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine--the king of assassins who claims to be Chuuya's older brother--suddenly appears,...

Winner of the Nebula Award! Finalist for the Hugo Award! Finalist for the World Fantasy Award! A New York Times Best Romance of 2022! C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End. "Eerie, sharp...

A house of haunted history and ill temper. Make yourself at home in this beguiling novel of love, magic, and danger by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised...

Rin's story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War--an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters.The war is over.The war has just begun.Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and...

"Addictive and immersive, this series is a must-read." --Entertainment Weekly Enter #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved Shades of Magic trilogy--a dazzling world of parallel Londons where magic thrives, starves, or lies forgotten, and where power can destroy just as...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations,...

A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerSeptember IndieNext PickA new door opens... Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and...

USA TODAY bestseller, #1 international bestseller, and Indie Next Pick Best of 2023 Pick for Autostraddle and BookPage; a Recommended Reading List Pick for LocusThe sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping...

A Buzzfeed Best Gift Book of the Year"A dark, atmospheric, and feminist story of three women in New York City's Gilded Age, each determined to thrive in a society hell-bent on keeping them down, and using their coven to do so." --BuzzfeedINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Respectable...

An arcane horror emerges from battle and blood. To stop it, Lily must risk becoming everything she fears.In a Europe devastated by four years of war, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford's arcane ability can uncover the truth...

Magic in the Great Sioux War! The thrilling sequel to The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow!When Mary Good Crow came out of the crystal into the arms of her sister, the last thing she wanted was another fight. But war is coming to...

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries--from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms...

"It's about Roman blood, survival and money. Mostly yours."In an alternative New York, Karen Brown is running for her life. She makes a snap decision to flee to Roma Nova - her dead mother's homeland, the last remnant of the Roman Empire in the...

Author: Rebecca RoanhorseISBN-10: 1982166193ISBN-13: 9781982166199Publisher: S&s/Saga PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2023Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history...

The second adventure in #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved Shades of Magic trilogy--a dazzling world of parallel Londons where the balance of power is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another must die... Red London is caught...

Becoming real was only the start. Pinocchio got his wish, but finds there's more to being human than having the right kind of body. Inside, he still feels like that same wooden puppet.In the wake of WWI, his struggle to fit into a human...

Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who has now left him behind in the Palace to safeguard the world during his absence on a quest to find an appropriately magical heir. When he returns, he...

The Crawford and Hugo Award-Winning Series Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella; shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award; One of Book Riot's Best Fantasy Debuts of All Time; A Milwaukee Journal Best of 2023 Pick; A...

Experience the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in V.E. Schwab's New York Times bestselling trilogy with the Shades of Magic Collector's Editions Boxed Set, featuring revamped covers, reading ribbons, stunning fan art, and exciting bonus material Explore the Shades of Magic world...

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life-200 years before she was even born. Tipsheet...

Wet areas got wetter and dry areas got drier. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. And they all met in Nineveh. A massive global drought combined with an epic contamination of the world's limited fresh water supply combined with the privatization...

A magician, a widower from the Sudan, and an automat travel the world...It is 1876. Three close friends-Jonas Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan-set out on another adventure. Celwyn has been wounded and all that keeps...

A magician, a widower from the Sudan, and an automat travel the world...It is 1876. Three close friends-Jonas Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan-set out on another adventure. Celwyn has been wounded and all that keeps...

"This book sparkles like a jewel in a cosmic clockwork-an uplifting gift to readers everywhere." - Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful WarriorWhy are the churches closed on Christmas Eve in Florence's San Frediano district? This mystery perplexes an acclaimed American poet...

In the third book of the Aven Cycle, a trio of sisters and an ambitious senator use charm, wit, and magic to protect their city from ruin.Latona of the Vitelliae, mage of Spirit and Fire, lies still as death. Her fate rests in the...

An Indie Next and LibraryReads "Hall of Fame" Pick!A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske's beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light. "Messy people and burn-it-down conflict. . . . Marske uses...

With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the "magnificent...

Number 12, Acteon Place is more than just a London town house. It is a harbour for the most dangerous enchantress in Britannia. There are prisoners in the cellar. Mysterious magical experiments in the attic. A fairy killer on the loose. A hunted governess,...

"Addictive and immersive, this series is a must-read." --Entertainment Weekly The thrilling conclusion to #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved world of parallel Londons--now at the brink of collapse. Loyalties will be tested, and sacrifices will be made... As darkness...

Thomas the Rhymer, legendary twelfth-century figure of traditional Scottish balladry, as you've never seen him before. He's known by many names over time--Tam Lin, Robin Hood, and numerous other incarnations reaching into the present--but at his heart he is still True Thomas, one man...

Claire built a device to fold space and time. It had a flaw... When the smoke clears, she finds herself halfway across the world, thousands of years in the past, and no device in sight. In bronze-age Florence, war has lasted for generations. All...

1881: The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished.The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide was on the losing side. Once the Royal Scientist Doctor for the now-dead cyborg monarchs of France, she's now a fugitive, hiding from the new king's Police S馗r鑼e. Pregnant and...

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature 'quarter turn to the fantastic' to tell a story of vengeance, power, and love. On a...

A STANDALONE gothic dark fantasy pirate romance re-telling of The Little Mermaid from the New York Times Bestselling Author of River of Shadows and Blood Orange.Princess Maren is a woman with a secret.When she was just 16-years old, she sold her soul to the...

From a three-time New York Times and USA TodayBestselling author. Fans of bromance and witty banter will be drawn to main characters. While the fourth book of the series, it is a standalone tale that doesn't require any prior knowledge to enjoy to the...

Tanya has won victory after victory on the battlefield, and still the Empire hurtles toward its destruction. Zettour stands at the helm, a warped sense of patriotism guiding his actions as he prepares the stage. His only goal now is to secure the best...

Torrential did the storms become. Torrential shall be the days to come.Exiled in disgrace and defeat after a vicious coup, Tez seeks an alliance with the militant Lake Tribe. Retaking the Stone Tribe is the key to a unified north in the face of...